The question here is whether you’ve crossed the line to radicalise yet, like so many of us have.

I’ve been teetering on that edge for a while now. I can’t give you a simple answer, because I’m a coward and an optimist that doesn’t like severe sudden changes. I want things to get better, but I’m afraid of the anxiety a revolution would cause me.

On the other hand, there’s a part of me that argues the anxiety would be worth the price and my reluctance is selfish. It waxes and wanes with my mood and energy. Particularly in the grinding mill of wage slavery, those swings have become more erratic and extreme.

Or whether you think screaming vote at people in the Most Important Election of Our Lives:tm: (Again) will this time achieve anything after the “most progressive president in history” or whatever bullshit they were pushing.

Yeah no, Most Important is a load of bull, and most progressive president (of the US) is probably neither true nor a particularly significant achievement for a nation whose history started with genocide, went on with slavery, half-hearted abolition motivated by politics rather than morals, never actually fixing anything but elections (domestic and foreign) and secured peace at the price of getting to freely infiltrate their military all over Europe and leverage the treaties to support - you guessed it - more genocide.

I’m no friend of the US politics and established. I’m just deep in denial and dismantling that delusion in a mind as rigid as mine is taking a long time.

I want to believe in peaceful means. I want to believe that the election can at least help slow the descent long enough for local movements to gather support, expand into regional, national and global initiatives to build a better world.

Rationally, you are right. Emotionally, I am still slave to my irrationality.